One thing is certain - Casey Anthony knows what happened and she escaped justice due to the time it took to recover little Caylee's corpse. This case was just jaw dropping - people could not imagine their 2 year old child missing for 10 minutes let alone a month without calling in a cavalry for help! The State of Florida appeared to have a strong case, albeit much of it was seen as circumstantial and some of the evidentiary methods used were not previously used in a court of law - allowing some jurors simply to dismiss the results as "junk science". I'm talking about that little can of air taken from the trunk of Casey's abandoned car - the car that reeked of decomposition and was sent to an expert in extracting chemicals from air samples.
Arpad Vass was the expert witness for the prosecution who testified to the content of the sealed air sample from the trunk. When he opened the can he immediately jumped back due to the strong decomposition odor. Massive amounts of the chemicals found in chloroform were also detected. Defense attorney dismissed this information as junk science because Vass is attempting to patent his air sample device. Vass isn't just some ambitious inventor. He's a senior research scientist at the infamous "body farm". If you are unfamiliar with the body farm, it's a place where dead bodies are studied for rates of decomposition under various circumstances. This assists law enforcement and coroners on narrowing a time of death in these type of cases.
Nobody expected Jose Baez to win this case - he had never had a death penalty case to defend so he paired up with the more seasoned and experienced Chaney Mason. Their real goal was to save Casey from the death penalty. I don't think anyone expected them to gain a full acquittal. I think they were just as surprised as the millions watching the verdict when the "not guilty" was read over and over and over. Sickening. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The jury just was so hung up on the cause of death. Should a murder defendant get a pass because they did a good job at hiding a body? She actually did a terrible job at hiding the body, because she tossed it just blocks from her own home, wrapped in blankets from her own crib!
Now to the shocking news. According to newly released court documents related to her bankruptcy case contained some shocking information about what defense lawyer Jose Baez knew about Caylee's death. The Anthony's hired a private investigator named Dominic Casey who claims Jose Baez told him that Casey had killed Caylee and she was desperate to frame an innocent person for the crime. Dominic Casey further claims he was forbidden from discussing Casey's involvement in the crime and why she used the duct tape (?). I've had my own theories on the duct tape that vary greatly from what prosecutor Jeff Ashton suggested at trial. Ashton told the jury he believed the duct tape was placed over Caylee's nose and mouth in an attempt to stop her from breathing. I've always thought Casey had the kidnapping idea planned out and many kidnap victims are found with duct tape on their mouths. Call it the staging of the scene.
I've also always believed the Anthony's knew their daughter was responsible for their beloved granddaughter's death. In the beginning, Cindy Anthony was furious with her daughter but had to pull back her rage to try to solicit information from Casey about where Caylee might be. But she knew, she had to know Casey was a world class liar ad thief. Too many lies and inconsistencies in her story. Here are some juicy tid bids from website "Sword & Scale":
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From Sword & Scale
Unfortunately double jeopardy prevents the state of Florida from going after Casey Anthony again. What a shame. She ruined the lives of her family - her parents were heartbroken over the loss of Caylee, more so than Casey seemed to be. However Cindy apparently had a change of heart when the trial began because it was fairly obvious she was perjuring herself on the witness stand about who was on the family computer doing chloroform searches. Cindy says it was her, not Casey. The prosecution brought in people from human resources where Cindy was working at the time in question when the searches were being done from the Hopespring Drive computer - and clearly Cindy was at work! She was logged into her computer and doing work. Prosecutors apparently decided not to prosecute her for her blatant lie.
Perhaps (besides Caylee) the biggest victim in this trial ended up being George Anthony - who Baez and Co. threw under the bus, backed over him and hit him again. The sexual abuse claims from Team Casey were so outlandish and I don't see how the jury even put any stock into that theory. If they watched the jailhouse video visits between the two you can tell Casey and George had a good father daughter relationship.
One last tidbid - I have no idea if this is true but I've heard it multiple times that Casey paid for her legal fees with sex with Jose Baez. Could it be true? Stranger things have happened. RIP little Caylee - I'm sorry your mother threw you away like trash. You deserved much better and had so many people who loved and adored you. You won't be forgotten and maybe someday your mom will tell the truth about what she did to you.
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